1: the number of indispensable assistants, without whom our lives would be a distressing quagmire – Libby we love you!

Finally, the one and only best person in my life: Kimberly, without whom I would be lost…

Thank you to everyone who reads our blogs, follows us on Twitter, sends us questions, watches our videos, comes to our classes, and generally makes being deeply involved in the SQL community a joy.

I sincerely wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!

Cheers!

(The whole team with all their kids after watching/helping Jonathan propose to Kristi at The Bean in Chicago in May)

(With our wonderful girls in Longyearbyen on Svalbard in August)

(At about 80 degrees north, next to the 7th largest ice cap in the world (Austfonna on the island of Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago) a couple of weeks later, at about 10pm. The ambient temperature is just above freezing, with a gentle katabatic wind coming off the ice, and I’m in shorts and a t-shirt – I don’t get cold!)